Activities

"The Amazing Race" or other interactive games for numeracy.

Geocaching -  Geocaching offers lots of opportunities to reinforce core skills, such as direction, orientation and degrees. GPS is also a great tool for teaching distance and estimation in your school grounds.

Emphasize Math vocabulary through an interactive word wall within the disciplines; discuss, use and write the words; link words to visuals; look at the etymology of words to help students understand and recall them, e.g. perpendicular bisector (the base words translate from Latin to hang a plumb line that cuts a line in two!); 

Objects to consider - e.g, show the class a shoe. Brainstorm all the of the numeracy aspects to designing and using that shoe: weight, amount of material, compressive and tensile strength of various materials, length of shoelaces, pattern on the sole, distance it could/has run, lifespan, shoe size, costs, design of shoe aligned to its purpose (lightweight, aerodynamic), etc. 

Share articles and/ quotes from a variety of sources with thought-provoking questions. For example, analyze pictures from the recent inauguration compared to the past - estimate how many people are in each, who was more accurate in their statements, the media or the President

• Epcor Example

• Trump’s Inauguration vs. Obama’s: Comparing the Crowds

Build lessons around realia (authentic texts and objects): price lists; sale flyers; posters; how much money has been collected; countdown to an “event” such as how many days until ATB banking day; ads for upcoming concerts, musicals, band performances - dates, times, locations and prices included, etc.

Teach students new counting and probability games to play.

Invite students to sketch everyday objects from different viewpoints and post them.

Mind Maps